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It was a freezing night in January of 2018.
A car pulled over on a quiet stretch of road in northeastern Vermont.
Inside was Jerry Banks, a jail guard.
He put the car in park and took a deep breath.
Then he picked up his phone.
He'd been preparing for this night for months.
A neighbor of his back in Nevada, a man named Aaron Etheridge, had come to him with a job.
Banks did a reconnaissance mission and figured it was going to be more complicated than he thought.
So he upped his fee.
And now here he was.
Banks pulled a ski mask with a us marshal's insignia on it down over his face, then turned on police lights on the dashboard of his white Ford Explorer and drove a short distance down the road to the house of Greg Davis.
The day after Davis body was found, a state trooper was on patrol just outside Alma, Kansas, when he noticed a vehicle stray from its lane.
He turned on his lights and pulled it over a white Ford Explorer.
It was a little after 02:00 p.m.
on an overcast winter day.
As the trooper approached the vehicle, he noticed the backseat was folded down and a mattress spread over the back of the car.
Jerry Banks had been driving for over 24 hours since the murder.
He was exhausted and, according to the troopers report, acting extremely nervous.
The officer peered inside the truck and saw what appeared to be law enforcement equipment, including a bulletproof vest and a gun.
He looked Jerry Banks up and down, but then sent him on his way.